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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:35 am
Parade, no doubt. Back in HS, I was in a combined band (two other bands in the county combined with us) for a Governor's Inaugural Parade at the capitol of Kentucky. It started with an overnight trip, ending up with me not being able to sleep and re-developing the flu that I had a week ago, and then marching 3 FULL MILES up and down hills (primarily up towards the capitol building). It was mid-December, so it was really cold (not that I mind the cold compared to the brutal summer heat), but that didn't seem to help my flu condition.
A lot of my friends told me to sit it out, but I stuck it through, and then slept all the way back home.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:59 pm
well..
i live in so cal and like
santa ana winds suck when your on a track
everything turns orange, even your instrument
besides that, ive been in pretty much light weather
a few light showers here and there but...
nothing bad really
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:37 pm
My home show was cancelled this year because of the remnants of a hurricane, in the beginning of November in New England biggrin
Otherwise, state championships this year (the week before the above hurricane) were during a storm. We had to do a standstill, so that the field would be fine when the bigger bands performed (we're USSBA class 1A, 30 members, so yeah, we're small...). It was pouring SHEETS. We [woodwinds] had to put our instruments in garbage bags so they wouldn't get ruined. I heard a BD from another band say how much money he was gonna have to pay in repairs for all the ruined pads biggrin
That was also the day our equipment truck broke down an hour away from the competition and had to be towed there, but that's an entirely different story...
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:04 pm
During band camp this year, the air was full of ash from a fire near our city. Our BD bought masks for us to wear, since we were only doing drill, but hardly anyone wore their's.
We've also marched in pouring rain, 100 degree weather, and really windy weather. But no snow since I live in SoCal.
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Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:13 pm
Akya the Air Goddess yeah...my place has crazy weather too! it started out nice and then it hailed....but...the worst weather i've marched in was championships....but we still won...OVERALL!! it was 70-80 mph winds, sleet and hail, snow...did i mention they spotted lightning on the field when we got to the stadium? yeah...and the show continued! haha!! just imagine 30 marching band players, plooms-that ended up looking like drowned birds by the end-flying,desperately holding onto life and breath to play...hehe dang straight! the stadium that we march at is a biiiggg circle... so it was like a tornado. my hat almost fell off! i had to hold it during the first half of the show! and this year, our first comp.... hahaha... we were doing great we sounded awesome, which is rare for a first competition. then, we heard people screaming behind us... but we kept marching. then people in the front were screaming because there was just buckets of rain being poured on them... (it was going in a circle you see) and then right before our biggest hit in the show, it hit us and in less than 2 seconds we were soaked... but we kept going... then all of the sudden our band director leaps down from the stands and tells us to stop. HE STOPPED US AT A COMPETITION!!!!! then we all had to run out of there... our director said that everyone was screaming because they were all wet... and you couldnt hear us at all... ahh well thats what you get for living in Northwest Pennsylvania...
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:07 pm
We marched in a monsoon. It was absolutely ghastly. It was pouring down rain, the wind was blowing, it was freezing, and the field was destroyed. It was also against our rival team. There was so much water in my shoe from just setting on the bleachers, that I took it off and poured the water out. My gloves were so wet it was pathetic. While on the field we had a colourguard member wipe out, and I stepped in a mud-hole and sunk up to my ankle. We had on our ponchos, but by the end of the night the only thing that was dry on me was my head, because our hats are amazing. It was the worst game ever.
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:41 pm
Early in the morining we had to be at the school at 545 in the morning on a saturday, the field was a mess it was uneven and a bunch of pot holes
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:11 am
At a competion a year ago from between the 30's and up to about the first hash was a MUD PIT! Alot of othe bands were slipping in the mud. My band was smart and moved everything up the first hash became the sideline the send hash became the first has and so forth.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:46 pm
Hofstra University or Band Camp. Hofstra we practiced in the worst rain EVER. Band camp, TOO MANY days was it scorching
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:55 pm
Hmm lets see, ive marched in hail, snow, sleet, thunderstorms, 108 degree weather, once in Dallas when it was snowing, sleeting, hailing, raining, thunder and lightning, windy, 20 degrees, and foggy all at once. I think that is the worst. I have been in any kind of wheather possible, accept like hurricane, tornado.... gonk lol I have definentially been in some bad weather.
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:31 pm
We were in Flagstaff and it was freezing! It was summer to! Anyways it started raining on the field and our instruments were getting wet which were ruining all the woodwind pads. And then ontop of that were kept loosing our balance and almost falling! It sucked!
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 2:41 pm
I have two bad conditions, though one is a usual band condition. Marching in 90 degree heat with a high humidity in wool marching uniforms that don't breathe. The other one was heavy sleet it was just above freezing. And we actually marched on the natural turf field (we now have astro-turf) it was horrible we were marching at a pretty freaking fast pace too. The funny thing is, my mom is the only band mom who has marched in worse conditions (up at Michigan Tech).
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:46 pm
WE marched in a torrential downpour for one of our away games last year...
Also this yrar we were marching in the homecoming parade and in rained!!!
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:47 pm
I live in Texas right? Well, Bands of America....was in Indianapolis...xD
WELL! Let's just say...that wasn't that great for us warm-bloods and with 20 degree whether and a ten degree wind chill....-shrugs-...some people get a little....shivery xD
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:59 pm
Lol you know how Alabama is alll about the twisters well we were marching were hear a siren go off and we all start running to are parents cause there was a twister comeing so yeah i almost died and im here!
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